The International 2018 Stats and Trends

Published: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/9amzvb/the_international_2018_stats_and_trends/

Spectral stats guy here. This post is based on data collected during TI8. You can check out Spectral Alliance TI8 stats hub for detailed stats for TI8 qualifiers, group stage, main event and each day of the tournament separately.

Full report is available here

And here is Spectral Alliance TI8 hub with Pre-TI8 teams stats, TI8 qualifiers, day-by-day reports and so on

• Total Matches played: 195
• Group Stage matches: 148
• Main event matches: 47
• Radiant winrate: 54.87%
• Average match duration: 39:34
• Heroes picked: 110
• Heroes banned: 96
• Heroes uncontested: 4 - Slark, Slardar, Dazzle and Dark Seer (also Grimstroke, but he’s not available in CM yet)

Records

Heroes

Just a quick note before we go: heroes in most contested list are sorted by “Rank”. For those who are wondering how it’s calculated: it’s (wins_picked+wins_banned)/total_matches and then it’s ranked by resulting value.

First stage of draft

Picks | Bans

Most picked hero pairs

This one is sorted by deviation - number of matches played over expected value.

Hero positions

Just want to note some things:

• I’m not going to discuss meta and why those heroes are pretty popular and strong right now (at least not here and not now), but I’d like to point out that most of heroes are much more diverse when it comes to safelane vs offlane. It all comes down to 2-1-2 laning and this idea of picking strong dual lane with midgame core to offlane (and dominate the lane) and picking another (usually lategame oriented) core to safelane (to suck and hope for a better future). That’s mostly the reason why a lot of carries are now going to offlane and why WK is so popular here. That’s also the reason of WK+DW combo being so popular
• Necrophos safelane winrate is some kind of a joke. Tiny mid as well

Some of the highest average values

Limiter for average values was set to 4 (a little bit off Valve’s limiter, but I guess it’s not that big of a deal)

I don’t really want to add all highest average values here, but if you really want to check them out - you can go here: https://spectralalliance.ru/reports/?league=ti8&mod=heroes-haverages

Players

Some of the highest average values

Pretty much the same situation as for heroes averages. All averages: https://spectralalliance.ru/reports/?league=ti8&mod=players

Notable participants

• Most matches played: PSG.LGD (30)
• Highest winrate: EG (74.07%)
• Team with the widest hero pool: Team Secret (58)
• Team with the smallest hero pool: TNC Predator (34)
• Player with the widest hero pool: Secret.MidOne (19)
• Player with the smallest hero pool: mski亿电竞.ninjaboogie (6)
• Most diverse player: Secret.MidOne (19 heroes over 26 matches)

Complete Teams Summary

Top-4 Teams’ favorite heroes

OG

PSG.LGD

EG

Liquid

Notable matches

• Match with Couriers Massacre - TNC vs VGJ.Storm - game 1 - Group Stage with 4 couriers killed
• Match that should show you how cruel these creatures are - Newbee vs Secret - game 1 - Group Stage with 7 Roshans killed
• Highest networth stomp by a team - EG vs Secret - game 1 - Main Event with 36,115 gold stomp
• Biggest networth comeback by a team and the longest match - Mineski vs Fnatic - game 1 - Group Stage with 18,005 gold swing and 1:21:52 duration
• Shortest match - OG vs VGJ.Thunder - game 2 - Group Stage, which ended after 16:59
• Bloodbath - OG vs Liquid - game 1 - Group Stage with 108 total kills made in the match
• Match that was won while still losing in terms of kills and networth - OG vs PSG.LGD - game 3 - Main Event day 5 with the most impressive turnaround

Interesting facts

• In OG-EG series Notail and Fly have almost equal values of placed wards, but Notail destroyed almost two times more wards than Fly in the series. Notail loves to buy a lot of sentries, but who knows: maybe he just knows where his friend usually wards
• During TI8 there were 370685 creeps killed, 7108 Observer wards placed, 91 couriers killed and 413 Roshans killed
• There were 1299 buybacks
• TI8 was awesome (but you probably already know that)
• Resolut1on is for some reason still listed in OG roster. That’s also why he got fetched as “OG.Resolut1on” for TI8 LAN reports

And yet again, full report is available here

Spectral Alliance TI8 stats hub

I’ve also updated SA twitter account and publish english version of all the news and updates related to Spectral Alliance, stats and meta trends posts.

Thanks to OpenDota and Stratz for their awesome APIs. And thanks to Speedy Gonzales for his patreon subscription.